We tried this out with our play group last night. It was awesome! I was only able to get in a couple of games, but everyone was having fun. We didn't play DCI, so no gambit and no activate 1 first, which I thought was fitting since we were playing Zombies so why not play to the last man er dead man. With this in mind, we limited the squads, so we did 150 points with 6 figures max, so a game wouldn't last forever. I was so happy with my groups choices in squads. All the squads were either Seps, Old Republic, Sith, or Mandos. Gimme a sec, I'm tearin up.... OK. Here is what I went with-
Boba Merc
Whorm
Tyranus LOTDS
Bib Fortuna
Wicket
Aqualish Assasin
First match was against Brian playing Sith with Darth Bane, New Malak, Gran, 3 Caamassi Nobles. I played all my games on Exodus Starship. First 2 rounds we both went top side playing who was really going to open the door first, lol. He used Malak to open the door and spent a force to base Dooku with Bane and another for a sweep taking out Bib, Aqualish, and putting damage on Dooku, but both Bib and Aqualish come back as zombies
. Boba puts 40 on Bane. Rd 3 big init as I am going to lightning and activate Bane or Dooku is done. I lose init and fail all my block attempts and take 100 from Bane in a flash, but now I have Zombie Dooku
. Then Malak lightnings and lose Bib and Aqualish before they get to do anything. Between Zombie Dooku and Boba I put 100 more on Bane and am thinking it's over. lol Next round I lose init again! Bane swings at Dooku to put him out of his misery needing not a 1 and misses! Leaving Dooku alive. Now Malak as to waste his turn finishing him off and misses as well. OMG. Now, boba puts another 80 on Bane and Zombie Dooku finishes him, so I get Zombie Bane and he gets a Zombie Bane. lol Next round I finally win init and Boba does 120 and destroys Malak and he gets Zombie Malak. So, now it is 3 unique zombies and Boba. Wow, crazy. He wins the next init and has to spend his 2 acts destroying my Zombie Bane, letting me Zombie Dooku go to town and Boba. When the dust settles it is 3 cammassi against Boba and Zombie Dooku and Whorm and Wicket.
A couple of things here. First, I know my opponent was thinking hey when these cammassis die they will become sweet zombies, but he failed to realize how hard it is to kill them.
He also never used them to base my shooters.
Next game I play against a Mando squad with Boba MC, Canderous, Mando Captain, Mando Gunslinger, Jawa Scout. I use intuition to put some damage on his Boba and Canderous and take about 40 damage in return fire. He stays on his end of the map trying to setup the Canderous machine gun, so I have to trek across the whole map. When I finally get down there Tyranus has about 6 FPs. I win init and use my aqualish to open the middle door allowing me to lighting Boba and he misses the activation save. I take some fire with Canderous, but he misses alot. Then my Boba finishes off his Boba and he doesn't get a Zombie Boba. He kills my Bib, but I get a zombie Bib to tie him up with. I win init next round and drop 120 on Canderous with my Boba and doesn't get a zombie again. He concedes. Zombies really were no factor in this game.
All in all the Zombie effect was really fun. My group was having trouble with the part of Zombie infestation where you get a zombie added to your squad. I tried to explain it like another zombie was coming out of the ground, but I think they would have preferred it to work that if a zombie kills a living creature and they failed the save then you got there piece as a zombie for your squad. If that makes sense? lol Have you guys made any changes since you played this?
Thanks again for coming up with this. Your hard work is appreciated!